Another benefit of Trump in office, unlike Blinken the retard who torpedoed the US-Saudi alliance to kiss Iranian butt.
This article isn’t very clear. It says state owned refineries have suspended purchases (and with only a week of history on this, that seems suspect), but rather more odd is that — being state owned — they then in the next sentence talk about requesting guidance from the gov’t for future purchases.
India consumes 5 million bpd. They produce about 800K bpd. So they must import 4.2 mbpd. Of this amount, about 2 mbpd is Russian. It varies 300K up and down various months.
The remaining 2 come from the Middle East. The measurement is generally seaborne. India has a vast network of internal crude pipelines (that 800K domestic production is very regional and so it must transport nationwide), but geography has obstructed various suggestions I can recall over the year of pipelines for crude import. And Pakistan to the west would obstruct direct import from Iran.